Peter Anthony Bloom Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of

Peter Anthony Bloom
Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities
Publications
BOOKS, EDITIONS, INTRODUCTIONS
Nouvelles Lettres de Berlioz, de sa famille, de ses contemporains (Correspondance générale, IX, Suppléments 2) edited
by Peter Bloom, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, and Cécile Reynaud (Arles: Actes Sud, forthcoming in
June 2016).
Claude Debussy, 1er Quatuor pour 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle, Op. 10
edited, with introduction and critical notes in French and English, by Peter Bloom
Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy, série III, volume 1
(Paris: Durand, 2015)
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work
edited, with an introductory essay, by Peter Bloom
(Rochester: The University of Rochester Press, 2008)
[with essays by Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Jacques Barzun, Peter Bloom, Gunther Braam, Alistair Bruce,
David Cairns, Gérard Condé, Pepijn van Doesburg, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Frank Heildlberger, Hugh
Macdonald, and Julian Rushton]
Dictionnaire Berlioz
edited by Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Peter Bloom, Pierre Citron, and Cécile Reynaud
(Paris: Fayard, 2003)
[Awarded the Prix de Joest by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France]
Hector Berlioz, Grand Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes (New Berlioz Edition, vol. 24)
edited, with foreword and annotations, by Peter Bloom
(Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2003)
Berlioz—Past, Present, Future: Bicentenary Essays
edited, with an introductory essay, by Peter Bloom
(Rochester: The University of Rochester Press, 2003)
[with essays by Jacques Barzun, Peter Bloom, David Charlton, Sylvia L’Écuyer, Peter Gay, Heather
Hadlock, Katherine Kolb, Richard Macnutt, Catherine Massip, Kerry Murphy, Jean-Michel Nectoux, Cécile
Reynaud, and Lesley Wright
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz
edited, with introduction and chronology, by Peter Bloom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra
transl. and ed. Jacques Barzun, with a new introduction by Peter Bloom
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999)
The Life of Berlioz
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
[Hungarian translation by Linda Kunos; Budapest, 2004]
Peter Bloom
Hector Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini: Dossier de presse parisienne (1838)
edited, with an introduction, by Peter Bloom
(Heilbron: Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, 1995)
À propos de la vie matérielle et de la condition sociale d’Hector Berlioz (with Hervé Robert)
(La Côte-Saint-André: Association Nationale Hector Berlioz, 1995)
Lélio ou Le retour à la vie, edited by Peter Bloom (New Berlioz Edition, vol.7)
(Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1992)
[Awarded the prize of the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband]
Berlioz Studies, edited, with an introductory essay, by Peter Bloom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Hector Berlioz, Les Nuits d’été, édition de Peter Bloom
(Paris: Éditions musicales du Marais, 1992)
Music Explained to the World, by Francis Joseph Fétis
with a new introduction by Peter Bloom
(New York: Da Capo, 1987)
Music in Paris in the Eighteen-Thirties / La Musique à Paris dans les années mil huit cent trente
edited, with preface and postface, by Peter Bloom
(New York: Pendragon Press, 1987)
“François-Joseph Fétis and the Revue Musicale (1827-1835)”
(Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1972)
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms 72-25, 546.
ARTICLES
Forthcoming
Fifty articles on Berlioz in the Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopaedia, ed. Julian Rushton
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2017)
“Berlioz et « une traduction ! » de Much Ado About Nothing”
Actes du colloque “Les Comédies de Shakespeare à l’opéra (XIXe-XXIe siècles)” [May 2015]
In print
“Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d’Ophélie,” in Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism ed. James
H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis
(London: Ashgate Lund Humphries, 2014), 73-92.
“Hector Berlioz’s ‘To be or not to be’”
The Hudson Review LXVII/2 (Summer 2014), 239-255.
“Tracking Träume: The Sources and Sounds of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lied”
The Wagner Journal (March 2014), 19-39.
“Berlioz concepteur d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes”
Analyse musicale, No. 72 (December 2013), 58-66.
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“Berlioz”; “Marie von Muchanoff-Kalergis”
The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 58-60; 323.
“The Political Implications of the Original Ending of Les Troyens”
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 192 (December 2013), 8-20.
“Berlioz’s ‘Natural’ Son” (with Pascal Beyls)
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 192 (December 2013), 21-30.
“Berlioz and Liszt in the Locker Room”
Studia Musicologica, 54/1 (March 2013), 75-86.
“Berlioz és Wagner”
[A Hungarian translation of the article published in The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz]
Magyar Zene, Journal of Musicologie (2013/1), 5-23.
“Berlioz’s First Nights”
in City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music: Essays in Honor of Thomas Forrest Kelly,
ed. Michael Cuthbert, Sean Gallagher, and Christoph Wolff
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013), 53-69.
“Une interview de Claude Debussy publiée dans le New York Times du 26 juin 1910”
Cahiers Debussy, No. 36 (2012), 47-54.
“Berlioz [and Shakespeare]”
in Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten: Great Shakespeareans, vol. XI, ed. Daniel Albright
(London: Continuum, 2012), 7-76.
“Le être ou ne pas être de Berlioz”
in Noter, annoter, éditer la musique, ed. Cécile Reynaud and Herbert Schneider
(Geneva: Droz, 2012), 473-489.
“Berlioz apolitique”
Hector Berlioz e la cultura del suo tempo, ed. Guido Burchi
(Sienna: Accademia Musicale Chigiana)
“Berlioz,” in Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten: Great Shakespeareans, vol. XI, ed. Daniel Albright
(London: Continuum, 2012), 7-76.
“Le être ou ne pas être de Berlioz”
in Noter, annoter, éditer la musique, ed. Cécile Reynaud and Herbert Schneider
(Geneva: Droz, 2012), 473-489.
“Robert Schumann und Mary Potts”
[A German translation of the article with the same title published in 2008 in Notes]
Schumann Studien, 10, ed. Thomas Synofzik (Sinzig: Studio Verlag, 2012), 245-254.
“Debussy Haunted by Wagner?”
The Consequences of Wagner, ed. Paulo F. de Castro
(Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012) [CD Rom]
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“Die politischen Implikationen des ursprünglichen Endes von Les Troyens“
[transl. Nikolaus Schneider]
Berlioz und Halévy im Spiegel der Grand Opéra
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010), 83-95.
“The French Text of Wagner’s Das Judentum in der Musik”
Notes, The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 67/2 (December 2010), 263-283.
“À propos d’une édition des Mémoires d’Hector Berlioz”
Hector Berlioz, Mémoires, ed. Michel Austin (Paris: Éditions du Sandre, 2010), xxi – xxv.
“Berlioz’s ‘Letters on Russia’ “
Journal of Musicological Research, 28/4 (2009), 264-281.
“Robert Schumann and Mary Potts”
Notes, The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 65/2 (December 2008), 268-281.
“Les Portraits de Cherubini et Fétis par Berlioz”
Revue belge de musicologie (November 2008), 115-126.
“Berlioz in the Aftermath of the Bicentenary”
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work, ed. Peter Bloom
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008), 1-8.
“Berlioz Writing the Life of Berlioz”
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work, ed. Peter Bloom
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008), 201-220.
“Reading Siegfried’s Reed”
Wagnerspectrum III/1 (2007), 77-92.
“Un épisode (politique) de la vie de Berlioz”
Musique, esthétique et société en France au XIXe siècle,
ed. Damien Colas, Florence Gétreau, and Malou Haine (Wavre: Margada, 2007), 217-231.
“Fétis’s Review of the Transcendental Etudes” [translation and commentary]
Liszt and His World, ed. Christopher Gibbs and Dana Gooley
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 427-439.
“History, Memory, and the Oboe Concerto of Richard Strauss”
Journal of the International Double Reed Society, 27 (Fall 2005), 77-95.
[a revised version of the article appearing in The Pendragon Review, 2 (2001), 3-25].
“Berlioz et ses biographes”
Hector Berlioz. Regards sur un Dauphinois fantastique, ed. Alban Ramaut
(Saint-Étienne Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2006), 53-72.
“Le XIXe siècle sur les scènes : Wagner à Paris à la rentrée 2005”
Dix-neuvième siècle: Recherches, Bibliographie, Actualité culturelle, 42 (December 2005).
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“Berlioz Virtuose”
Romantisme, 128 (Summer 2005), 71-93.
“Conspicuous Berlioz”
Aspen Music 2003 (Aspen: Aspen Music Festival, 2003), 39-43.
“The ‘Politics’ of Berlioz and Wagner”
Berlioz, Wagner und die Deutschen,
ed. Sieghart Döhring, Arnold Jacobshagen, and Gunther Braam (Köln: Dohr, 2003), 147-154.
“Berlioz: Reflections on a Nonpolitical Man”
The Yale University Library Gazette, 78 (October 2003), 19-38.
“Berlioz à la conquête des institutions”
Berlioz: La Voix du romantisme
(Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France / Fayard, 2003), 59-67.
One hundred twenty articles for the Dictionnaire Berlioz (Paris: Fayard, 2003)
(see Books).
Thirty articles on Berlioz for the Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle,
ed. Joël-Marie Fauquet (Paris: Fayard, 2003).
“Les Mémoires de Berlioz “
H. Berlioz, Épisodes de la vie d’un artiste (Grenoble: Glénat, 2003), 116-123.
“Forewarding Les Soirées de l’orchestre”
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 165 (Autumn 2002), 9-12.
“History, Memory, and the Oboe Concerto of Richard Strauss”
The Pendragon Review, 2 (2001), 3-25.
“La Correspondance d’Hector Berlioz” (with Cécile Reynaud)
Berlioz écrivain (Paris: Ministère des Affaires étrangères / ADPF, 2001), 18-31.
“Berlioz und Wagner: Épisodes de la vie des artistes” (transl. Hans R. Vaget)
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (January 2001), 1-22.
“Berlioz on the Eve of the Bicentenary”
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz, ed. Peter Bloom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1-8.
“Berlioz and Wagner: Épisodes de la vie des artistes”
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz, ed. Peter Bloom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 235-250.
”The Public for Orchestral Music in the Nineteenth Century”
The Orchestra: Origins and Transformations, ed. Joan Peyser, 2nd ed.
(New York: Billboard, 2000), 253-283 [1st ed. (New York: Scribners, 1986)].
“Berlioz’s Directorship of the Théâtre Italien”
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Liber Amicorum Yves Gérard (Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1997), 131-146.
“Berlioz à Ricordi: Dix Lettres inédites”
Revue de musicologie, 82 (1996), 155-166.
“Sardanapal!—The French Connection: Unraveling Faust II, 10176” (with Hans R. Vaget)
Goethe Yearbook, vol. 8 (1996), 252-270.
“Episodes in the Livelihood of an Artist: Berlioz’s Contacts and Contracts with Publishers”
Journal of Musicological Research, 15 (1995), 219-273.
“Berlioz’s Furniture: A Closer Look”
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 153 (1995), 7-12.
“Berlioz to Ferrand: Eight Billets intimes”
The Musical Quarterly, 79 (1995), 552-579.
“Frankreich bis 1870”
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Sachteil, vol. 3 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1995), cols. 755-770.
“Le sort du Fliegende Holländer en France :
Le Hollandais volant de Wagner et le Vaisseau fantôme de Dietsch”
Musique et méditations, ed. Joël-Marie Fauquet (Paris: Aux Amateurs de Livres, 1994), 83-110.
“In the shadows of Les Nuits d’été”
Berlioz Studies, ed. Peter Bloom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 81-111.
“Fétis’s ‘La Musique mise à la portée de tout le monde’: Impetus and Impact”
Atti des XIV Congresso della società internazionale di musicologia (Turin, 1991), 530-537.
“Berlioz in the Year of the Symphonie fantastique”
Journal of Musicological Research, 9 (1989), 67-88.
“A Note on Verdi in Paris”
Verdi Newsletter, 16 (1988), 16-19.
“Berlioz pendant l’année de la Symphonie fantastique”
Mélanges Robert Wangermée, ed. Henri Vanhulst and Malou Haine (Brussels, 1988), 93-112.
“ ‘Politics’ and the Musical Press in 1830”
Periodica Musica, 5 (1987), 9-16.
“A Review of Fétis’s Revue Musicale”
Music in Paris in the Eighteen-Thirties, ed. Peter Bloom (New York: Pendragon Press, 1987), 55-80.
“The Fortunes of the Flying Dutchman in France:
Wagner’s ‘Hollandais volant’ and Dietsch’s ‘Vaisseau fantôme’“
Wagner (The Journal of the British Wagner Society), 8/2 (April 1987), 43-66.
“Fétis’s La Musique mise à la portée de tout le monde”
Nineteenth-Century Music, 10 (1986), 84-88.
“Sardanapale and the Symphonie fantastique: A Programme, A Letter, A Coincidence”
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Berlioz Society Bulletin, 128 (Summer, 1986), 2-9.
“Academic Music: The Archives of the Académie des Beaux-Arts”
Nineteenth-Century Music, 7 (1983), 129-136.
“Berlioz à l’Institut Revisited”
Acta Musicologica, 53 (1981), 171-199.
“Berlioz and the Prix de Rome of 1830”
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 39 (1981), 279-304.
“Berlioz and Officialdom: Unpublished Correspondence”
Nineteenth-Century Music, 4 (1980), 134-146.
“Friends and Admirers: Meyerbeer and Fétis”
Revue belge de musicologie, 34 (1980), 174-187.
“La Mission de Berlioz en Allemagne: Un document inédit”
Revue de musicologie, 66 (1980), 174-187.
Berlioz and the Critic: La Damnation de Fétis”
Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1980), 240-269.
“A Return to Berlioz’s Retour à la vie”
The Musical Quarterly, 64 (1978), 354-385.
“Berlioz’s Music for L’Europe littéraire” [with D. Kern Holoman]
The Music Review, 39 (1978), 100-109.
“Une Lecture de Lélio ou le Retour à la vie de Berlioz”
Revue de musicologie, 63 (1977), 89-105.
“Orpheus’ Lyre Resurrected: A Tableau musical by Berlioz”
The Musical Quarterly, 61 (1975), 189-211.
“Critical Reaction to Beethoven in France: François-Joseph Fétis”
Revue belge de musicologie, 26-27 (1972-73), 67-89.
Reviews, Program Notes, Reports, and Miscellaneous Publications
“Jacques Barzun” [An Appreciation]
The Royal Society of Literature Review (London, February 2013), 57-58.
“Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique; Cléopâtre”
Orchestre de Paris, Saison 2009-2010, programme des 17-18 février 2010, 3-9.
Barbara Kelly and Kerry Murphy, eds., Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies.
Essays in Honour of François Lesure (2007) [review]
Revue de musicologie, 97/1 (2011) , 175-179.
Pascal Beyls, “Berlioz’s Direct Descendant(s)”
transl. and ed. Peter Bloom
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Berlioz Society Bulletin, 186 (August 2011),23-36.
Jean-Pierre Bartoli, “The Berlioz Question – encore…et pour toujours”
transl. and ed. Peter Bloom
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 183 (Summer 2010), 3-10.
“Riccardo Muti, Gerard Depardieu, et l’Épisode de la vie d’un artiste de Berlioz”
Dix-neuvième siècle: Recherches, Bibliographie, Actualité culturelle, 49 (July 2009), 70-75.
“Riccardo Muti, Gerard Depardieu, and the Épisode de la vie d’un artiste”
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 179 (May 2009), 65-68.
“Les Troyens in Massachusetts”
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 177 (August 2008), 27-31.
“Fétis in Paris”
Revue belge de musicologie (November 2008), 79-81.
“Frère Jacques” [a tribute to Jacques Barzun]
Berlioz Society Bulletin, 175 (December 2007), 4-9.
“Wagner à Paris à la rentrée 2005”
Dix-neuvième siècle: Recherches, Bibliographie, Actualité culturelle, No. 42 (December 2005), 134-136.
“Jacques Barzun, Medal of Freedom”
The Berlioz Society Bulletin (Winter 2003), 5-7.
“Vernon Gotwals” [obituary]
Smith Alumnae Quarterly (Summer 2002), 38.
Hector Berlioz: Critique Musicale, 3: 1837-1838 (2001); Gérard Streletski, Contribution à l’histoire sociale de la
musique en France: Hector Berlioz et Edme-Marie-Ernest Deldevez, Formation et Insertion dans la société du XIXe
siècle (1803-1897) (2000); Michael Rose, Berlioz Remembered (2001) [review]
Music & Letters (Summer 2002), 300–305.
“Roméo et Juliette et la Symphonie fantastique”
program note for the international tour of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor (autumn 2002, spring 2003).
“Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique”
notes with the recording, for Naiveclassique (V4935)
Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor (April 2002), 5-9; 18-21.
“Berlioz: A Kick in the Shins” [letter to the editor]
The New York Times (“Arts and Leisure,” 8 April 2001).
“What Do We Say and How Do We Say It?” [editorial]
The Pendragon Review, 1 (2001), 69-71.
“Berlioz Classique, Romantique, Politique”
Orchestre de Paris, Saison 2001-2002, 17-23.
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“Berlioz—Past, Present, Future” [conference report],
The Berlioz Society Bulletin, 162 (Autumn 2000), 17-19.
“Berlioz et autour de Berlioz” [conference report]
Musicology and Sister Disciplines (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 473-476.
“Pitié pour le vrai Berlioz !” [editorial]
Le Monde, samedi 8 juillet 2000, 15.
David Cairns, Berlioz, I, The Making of the Artist, II, Suffering and Greatness (London, 1999)
Music & Letters (Summer 2000), 455-460. [review]
“Berlioz’s Le Carnaval romain”
Boston Symphony Orchestra Program Book (March 2000), 17-21.
Selected Letters of Berlioz, ed. Hugh Macdonald (New York, 1997)
Notes, 55 (1999), 407-409. [review]
“Berlioz’s homage to Goethe”
Times Literary Supplement (30 May 1997)
Le Conservatoire de Musique, ed. Emmanuel Hondré
Notes, 52 (1996), 1171-1174. [review]
“Berlioz’s Letters”
Boston Symphony Orchestra Program Book (October 1994), 13-19.
“Beethoven’s Progeny: Berlioz, Wagner, Brahms”
Boston Symphony Orchestra Program Book (April 1994), 15-19.
“The Unromantic Berlioz”
Boston Symphony Orchestra Program Book (October 1993), 14-19.
“Un portrait de François-Joseph Fétis”
Fauteuil d’orchestre, 10 (Bulletin de l’Orchestre National de Lyon) (December 1992).
“On the Retirement of Paul Evans”
Smith Alumnae Quarterly (Spring 1993).
Music and the French Revolution, ed. Malcolm Boyd
Music & Letters, 74 (May 1993), 300-303. [review]
Hector Berlioz, Beatrice et Bénédict (new edition of the piano-vocal score)
Notes, 45 (December 1988), 390-392. [review]
Ralph P. Locke, Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians
Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Summer 1988), 128-129. [review]
La Musique à Paris en 1830-1831, ed. François Lesure
Fontes Artis Musicae, 31 (1984), 191-192. [review]
Music for Oboe
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Notes, 40 (1984), 878-879.
Symphonies by Hérold and Onslow, in The Symphony 1720-1840, ed. B.S. Brook
Notes, 40 (1984), 632-633.
“On the Retirement of Vernon Gotwals”
Smith Alumnae Quarterly (Summer 1984), 33-34.
Conference Report: Music in Paris in the 1830s (with H.R. Cohen)
Journal of Musicology, I (1982), 464-465.
Recent Music for Oboe
Notes, 34 (1977), 460; 465-467.
Recent Music for Quatuor d’anches
Notes, 33 (1976), 409-411.
Recent Music for Woodwind Trio
Notes, 33 (1976), 167-169.
Evelyn Rothwell, The Oboist’s Companion
Notes, 33 (1976), 170-171.
Miroslav Hosek, Oboenbibliographie
Notes, 33 (1976), 76-77.
Recent Music for Oboe
Notes, 32 (1975), 144-147.
Recent Music for Oboe
Notes, 31 (1975), 865-867.
Communication [“A Male-Chauvinist View of Sonata Form”]
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 27 (1974), 161-162.
Brian Primmer, The Berlioz Style; A.E.F. Dickinson, The Music of Berlioz
Notes, 30 (1973), 272-275. [review]
Hector Berlioz, Correspondance générale, I, ed. Pierre Citron
Notes, 30 (1973), 51-54. [review]
Report from the University of Pennsylvania
Current Musicology, 11 (1971), 31-34.
Report from the University of Pennsylvania
Current Musicology, 7 (1968), 32-35.
Further Writing and Editorial Work
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Member, Comité de lecture, Comité de rédaction (2009- )
La Revue de Musicologie (Société française de Musicologie, Paris)
Member of the Comité éditorial (2002- )
La Critique musicale d’Hector Berlioz, ed. Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï
(Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1996- ; seven of ten volumes have appeared)
Consulting Editor
Amazon.com (2000-2001)
Consulting Editor
The Pendragon Review (1998-2000)
Program-Note Annotator
Springfield Symphony Orchestra (1979-1984)
Music Critic
Daily Hampshire Gazette (Summer 1979)
Editor
Newsletter of the American Musicological Society (1977-1978)
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